Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Editorial: Sending armed troops to quash peaceful campus protests is a dangerous idea

Apr 26, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -49% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : And more than two dozen Republican senators signed a letter urging the Biden administration to "restore order to campuses" by using federal law enforcement, prosecution and deportation against "the outbreak of anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs.
38% : It's clear that these Republican politicians are less concerned with the wave of antiwar protests than using them for their own political ends.
38% : To the contrary, Johnson played a key role in helping Trump try to overturn the election.
25% : Johnson also threatened to use his power as speaker to punish colleges that don't eject protesters by withholding federal education funding.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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